Carbon monoxide and kitchen fires are two of the most common causes of preventable death and injury at home in the UK, and both are cheap to guard against. A CO alarm gives you an early warning from a faulty boiler or blocked flue; a fire blanket smothers a pan fire in seconds, before it spreads.
We've picked a British Kitemarked CO alarm with a sealed 7-10 year battery (no forgetting to change it) and a Kitemarked fire blanket sized for a standard kitchen. Fit a CO alarm in every room with a fuel-burning appliance, and keep the fire blanket somewhere you can reach it without leaning over the hob.
Carbon monoxide is invisible, odourless and deadly — an alarm is the only way to know it's there, and essential wherever you burn fuel for heat, light or cooking.
A sealed long-life battery means a decade of protection with no forgotten battery changes — ideal for a device you must not let go flat.
A screen showing CO levels lets you see a problem building before the alarm point, and confirm the air is clear afterwards.
A portable unit covers caravans, boats and power-cut heating; a loud 85dB+ alarm wakes you from sleep, which is when CO is most dangerous.
No alarm makes it safe to run a camp stove, BBQ or generator in a closed room or tent. Keep them outdoors — the alarm is a backup, not permission.
An untested alarm may be dead when it matters. Press the test button periodically and replace the unit at its end-of-life date.
A portable carbon monoxide alarm with a sealed 10-year battery and digital display, giving a loud early warning of CO from boilers, stoves, heaters and generators.
A Kitemark-certified fire blanket to BS EN 1869 in a rigid wall-mountable case — the recognised standard for smothering kitchen and chip-pan fires fast.